English in Psychology for Students and Practitioners I

A good command of English has become indispensable to students, researchers and practitioners in psychology. In addition to reading and listening tasks that develop your receptive skills, the course includes written and oral exercises such as summaries, discussions and short presentations that develop your productive competencies.

The course acquaints you with reading techniques and the language of written English (special terminology and common phrases) to enhance your understanding of complex academic publications on a range of psychology topics. Listening exercises familiarize you with various presentation styles and accents to develop your capacity to extract and understand crucial information. And you develop confidence, fluency and accuracy in discussing, presenting and writing.

You are encouraged to work on your own materials and topics that interest you and will receive additional support according to your individual needs.

The following dates will be taught online: 22 March, 19 April, 3 May and 17 May

Course information

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Course level
B2/ C1
Date
15.03.2023–24.05.2023
24 Lessons
Lecturer
Sandra Senti, Dr.
Credit points
2 ECTS
Registration deadline
Tuesday 07.03.2023
Course fee
Students and PhD candidates: CHF 315.00
Members of staff: CHF 579.00
Alumni: CHF 579.00
Alumni FHNW: CHF 579.00
Registration

There will be no classes on 5 and 12 April 2023.

Course materials

Handouts, publications and wordlists provided by the lecturer.

Requirements

To earn credit points, participants are expected to

  • not be absent more than once,
  • participate actively in class,
  • submit two satisfactory texts of at least 300 words (if a text is unsatisfactory, it may be resubmitted once),
  • prepare an oral presentation based on an article (20-30 min. including class discussion plus a handout).

Workload for ECTS:
In addition to class time, participants must plan to spend 3 hours per week on preparing and reviewing for class and on autonomous learning.

You can earn 2 credit points.
The course is graded with either pass or fail.

Certificate of attendance

Active participation is assumed. In order to receive a certificate of attendance (available on request) for this course, you are not allowed to be absent more than once.

Placement test

This course requires either an obligatory placement test or completion of a preceding course. If you have not attended a preceding course, a computer placement test has to be taken prior to registration.

Replacement date

The supplementary replacement date for lessons that might not take place is: 31 May 2023 from 17:45 - 19:45

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